Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 29th December. 

We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am 

Last week the hike day was another rainy one and the temperature was low enough that we were seeing sleet rather than rain for a while.  On much of the higher ground where we have hiking routes I'm sure walking would not be very pleasant with lots of wet snow on the ground just now.  We decided the best thing to do was just start from the ballpark and hike up through the forest to Cap Sheaf Lake.  Some sections of the trail were covered with quite a layer of small green branches a reminder that we have had some extremely strong gales in the last couple of weeks. At lunch time we were under some trees looking out over a marsh and frozen lake. It was cold and wet, but a least not windy as a breeze would have made things really uncomfortable. 

  

On a recent hike I could not resist taking some photos of an old Kenilworth dump truck belong to an island logging company.  This type of vehicle is used to transfer road building gravel from roadside pits out to the logging roads being repaired or extended into fresh logging areas.  I'm not sure how old this one actually is, but it does appear to have had many years of rough use. It looks like a good candidate for preservation in a museum!

JD.

A vintage Texada logging company dump truck for road building.